Brogan Wassell
ABOUT
I wanted to make a video in exploration about the nature and aspects of authority and authorship and the power to create and to make. It started first as a poem and then I began to flesh it out more in a more drawn out process in how everyone seems to have a praxis by which they operate or observe the world, but the really is the question of "what" or "who" is "the authority"? I've had this idea for some time but decided to put it together for AIFF this past month. Special thanks for all the providers of the incredible imagery from my many tools. SPECIAL THANKS in particular these tools from Elevenlabs, RunwayML, dreamina, topaz, adobe, midjourney, grok, gpt img, openart, and martini.art. Of whom would not have been able to complete this project without them. Created using Seedance and RunwayML and Dreamina and Open Art and Midjourney and Nano Banana Pro and Seedream and GPT 2 image. #SpecialForAAIFF
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PROCESS
It largely was a process born out of the original sensibilities of the imagery being generated. But before any of that I first wrote the poetry / dialogue that everything else would be based around. I did not use AI to do this as I wrote it all myself. Then from there I began to visually construct in my mind what I'd like to show as I brought you along the path towards what would eventually be there. This is where the magic really happened and once I had my painterly visual style locked in it got a lot easier to create the images and then create the video to match. Then it was just a matter of editing. One of the hardest parts was editing the music and making sure that the dialogue and the music would be able to match timing wise. Some editing made that happen.
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